The Third Wave of Startups
FWD Business|November 2016

How startups will define the next wave of internet.

Thenmozhi Shanmugam
The Third Wave of Startups

In the last couple of months at fundcloud, we have been meeting the business leaders from all walks and educating them about our new community initiative, philosophy, and ethos. A few committed community leaders came forward supporting us at the initiative, but a majority of the business house leaders are still skeptical about the prospects of new tech startups generating exponential returns. We realized there is a general lack of trust when it comes to investing in startups in spite of being in an era of internet business dominating the commerce space in India. In this article, I'll try to take a broader understanding of how the world is shaping around startups and why we should care to become agile, stay curious and compete on this universal stage.

A devoted pupil of world's connected networks and commerce, I strongly believe that Western global industry trends make a high impact on how we lead our business, select technology, influence our education and in also our lifestyle management to get on par with the developed countries. Kochi offers a high quality of life, the lifestyle experience in this city is more comparable to the west than other Indian cities and we are proud this fact.

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